The fast-casual Italian chain has built its brand in Columbus over the past five years and has been on a steady march to 22 restaurants today. Customers have lined up at restaurant openings in Central Ohio, Cleveland, Dayton, Indianapolis, Toledo.

Three years ago, Roy Erez was trying to buy a gift online for a friend who just had a baby. But with credit card in hand, about to make the purchase, he realized he didn’t have his friend’s shipping address. “I was thinking, ‘this is incredible,’” Erez said. “I’m there, a consumer with my credit card, and I cannot purchase because I don’t know their address. That was this ...

Robert Rodriguez never planned on turning a spread of five idled airplane hangars owned by the state government into a film and television empire. To hear the acclaimed and commercially successful Austin director tell it, his Troublemaker Studios quietly evolved into a heavyweight entertainment outpost when he wasn’t really thinking about it.

Discovering focus

While in his third year at the University of Cincinnati, industrial designer Ryan Eder was working out when a man in a wheelchair entered the gym.

“He had a bag of homemade accessories he used to adapt the equipment,” he said. “I watched him spend more time transferring in and out of his chair and adapting the equipment than actually exercising. ... You could see the frustration on his face ...